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enInterview with Greenpophttp://urbansprout.co.za/interview_with_greenpop
<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><strong><a href="http://www.greenpop.org/" target="_blank">Greenpop</a> chat to me about their festival, carbon offsetting and the awesomeness of vegetarian food...</strong></p>
<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.urbansprout.co.za/files/images/from greenpops projects trees for zambia.jpg" alt="Greenpop have run many great projects, including Trees for Zambia" title="Greenpop have run many great projects, including Trees for Zambia" class="image image-preview " width="410" height="273" /><span class="caption" style="width: 408px;"><strong>Greenpop have run many great projects, including Trees for Zambia</strong></span></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenpop.org/" target="_blank">Greenpop</a> just hosted its second ever <a href="/green_event/greenpop_reforest_fest_2012" target="_blank">Reforestation Festival</a> this past weekend, where participants plant indigenous trees to help restore the ancient <a href="http://www.platbos.co.za/" target="_blank">Platbos forest</a>. Around 250 people from the ages of 5 to 65 years joined them in their 'Treevolution'.</p>
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<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.urbansprout.co.za/files/images/shoots_furniture.jpg" alt="1st prize: SHOOTS by Gabrielle Birkenmeyer" title="1st prize: SHOOTS by Gabrielle Birkenmeyer" class="image image-preview " width="410" height="272" /><span class="caption" style="width: 408px;"><strong>1st prize: SHOOTS by Gabrielle Birkenmeyer</strong></span></span>In March 2012, the <a href="//www.nokak.com/" target="_blank">Eco Design Initiative</a> hosted its highlight events, the <a href="/south_african_sustainable_design_awards_tomorrow" target="_blank">Sustainable Design Showcase</a> at City Hall and the Fresh Talent Challenge, a social design intervention that took place in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. (6 to 16 March) </p>
<p>These were the culmination of the Initiative’s second cycle of events, themed <strong>“Home is where the heart is”.</strong> The goal of the Initiative’s mission to <strong>“educate, exhibit, exchange”</strong> is to deliver tangible examples of how sustainability and design thinking and processes have the power to make life better - for people, our planet and prosperity.<br />
<strong>the sustainable design awards</strong></p>
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<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.urbansprout.co.za/files/images/Lion&#039;s Head.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-preview " width="410" height="125" /></span> Capetonians up Lion's Head - made it to front page of the Sunday Times and the weekend Argus! (click read more for all the pics...)</p>
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<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.urbansprout.co.za/files/images/connect the dots.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-preview " width="410" height="410" /></span>Join Bill McGibbon's 350.org this weekend in an event near you to <a href="/connect_the_dots" target="_blank">connect the dots </a>(<a href="//www.facebook.com/events/230513910383658/234826669952382/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity" target="_blank">Capetonians are climbing Lion's Head</a>) </p>
<p>All across the world people are holding rallies to remind people what has happened in their neighbourhoods, to raise awareness of climate changes, and so connect the dots.</p>
<p>Climate change, says Bill McGibbon in an <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/may/04/connecting-dots-climate-change-crisis" target="_blank">article written for The Guardian</a>, is actually the biggest thing that is going on every single day...</p>
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<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.urbansprout.co.za/files/images/carbon_0.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-preview " width="410" height="276" /></span>The <a href="http://www.capetown.gov.za/" target="_blank">City of Cape Town</a> has taken another step towards the fostering of green energy and reducing Cape Town’s carbon footprint. </p>
<p>The Mayoral Committee has recommended to Council that it establishes an Energy &amp; Climate Change Committee at its Council meeting on Thursday 26 April. </p>
<p>This committee will ensure that Cape Town’s energy plan reduces the City’s carbon footprint according to set targets and timelines with the goal of making the city carbon neutral. This will be achieved through the promotion of green energies, as well as improvements in Cape Town’s energy efficiency relating to industrial, commercial and domestic consumption of energy.</p>
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<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.urbansprout.co.za/files/images/Pandora Long, Penz malinga, Penny Rees and Mike Farley- photo by Sbonelo Ngcobo The Mercury.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-preview " width="410" height="270" /></span><em>Pandora Long, Penz Malinga, Penny Rees and Mike Farley</em></p>
<p>A small group of environmentalists passionate about the planet, and particularly water, will begin walking the 265 kms of the uMngeni River on 1 May (May Day). </p>
<p>Starting at MngeniVlei – the plateau above Dargle and Fort Nottingham where the river rises - and ending at Blue Lagoon where it rushes into the Indian Ocean. </p>
<p>Along the way they will document and record all impacts on the river to gain a complete picture of the health of the river and hopefully unite everyone in establishing <strong>a Green Corridor</strong> along the length of the river. Daily stories of their adventures and findings will be posted on their blog - <a href="http://www.umngeniriverwalk.wordpress.com" target="_blank">www.umngeniriverwalk.wordpress.com</a>.</p>
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<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.urbansprout.co.za/files/images/connect-the-dots.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-preview " width="410" height="205" /></span><em>Dear Friends,</em></p>
<p>Across the planet now we see ever more flood, ever more drought, ever more storms. People are dying, communities are being wrecked — the impacts we’re already witnessing from climate change are unlike anything we have seen before.</p>
<p><strong>But because the globe is so big, it’s hard for most people to see that it’s all connected. That’s why, on May 5, we will Connect the Dots.</strong></p>
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<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.urbansprout.co.za/files/images/solar cooking.res_.crop_..jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-preview " width="410" height="306" /></span>Probably the most important reason for lowering our impact on ecological systems is to try and reduce the rate of extinctions of species. We rely entirely on the eco-system services which our planet provides us for survival – water, energy, food. </p>
<p>A planet with reduced diversity is an unhealthy and unstable one. If our range of foods becomes too small, there is more risk of disease. We need wild diversity to survive.</p>
<p><strong>What is sustainable living?</strong> It is reducing human impact on the ecologicalsystems of the planet, starting with one human in particular – you. As consumers we need to slow down, stop shopping and start living...</p>
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<!-- google_ad_section_start --><p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.urbansprout.co.za/files/images/reforest fest.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-preview " width="410" height="276" /></span>Last year we planted 1324 trees at the Greenpop Reforest Fest and this year, we're hoping for more. Come and be part of this awesome event!</p>
<p>The Platbos forest is an ancient South African forest jewel and we need to protect it. Over the past decades it has been deforested for agriculture and now is under threat of fire as alien vegetation has taken over substantially. Platbos reforestation project aims to ultimately grow the forest back to its original size and splendor.</p>
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